How did your interest start?

[Saran]

It was my history teacher in the 7th grade. He was so handsome and young, a new graduate from the Namtional University of Mongolia , we teenage girls were interested in him more than his history class. Then eventually I was so into Mongolian history and felt so proud of our ancestors, Hunnu, Jujan etc. I don't know much about the general steppe history though .
I then started working as a tour guide for English speaking tourists during my summer holiday when I was freshman at the university in 2001, so I had to read a lot about Mongolian history. Now I remember very little of what I read and studied, but I love learning more and more ;D

[balamir]

ý am steppe =)

[H. İhsan Erkoç]

Hi balamir, welcome to SHF!

[suren911]

I became interested when I became in touch with my Mongol side at around the age of 14 or 15. I started to tirelessly read up on articles, facts, websites, books. It was crazy lol.

[mongolang]

My interest began from my family lineage, since I was child my father told me I am the 37th descendant of chinggis khan by his fourth son toluii, which always stay in karakorum, which was the imperial capital of the first and the second mongolian empire, nowadays it is almost a ruined city only for the tourist it is very interesting place to pay a visit. I was returned in mongolia but I was very dissapointed since the poverty reigned in my homecountry, it is really regretable once a very large empire now in the misery, what a pity for my fllow countrymen, my bretheren and sisters.
my family left karakorum in 1893 before the submerged of bolchevics which my family was consider the exploited family because of my ancesters, so we moved in to china since we no longer living in mongolia, but I was always very proud to be mongolian even my homecountry is considered as the one of the poorest countries in the world, I love Mongolia, my motherland !!!

[eolas]

I love Archaelogy when I was 7 or 6. But there is a problem. I was thinking, its about dinosaurs:)
Ýn 10 ý red an article about Huns. Ýn 12-13 history became my favourite lesson. Ýn 13 I wrote a little homeworkd about Huns. Now I am trying to learn all about Huns(especially European Huns).

[H. İhsan Erkoç]

mongolang said:

My interest began from my family lineage, since I was child my father told me I am the 37th descendant of chinggis khan by his fourth son toluii, which always stay in karakorum, which was the imperial capital of the first and the second mongolian empire, nowadays it is almost a ruined city only for the tourist it is very interesting place to pay a visit. I was returned in mongolia but I was very dissapointed since the poverty reigned in my homecountry, it is really regretable once a very large empire now in the misery, what a pity for my fllow countrymen, my bretheren and sisters.
my family left karakorum in 1893 before the submerged of bolchevics which my family was consider the exploited family because of my ancesters, so we moved in to china since we no longer living in mongolia, but I was always very proud to be mongolian even my homecountry is considered as the one of the poorest countries in the world, I love Mongolia, my motherland !!!

Hello Mongolang, welcome to SHF!

[Temüjin]

eolas said:

I love Archaelogy when I was 7 or 6. But there is a problem. I was thinking, its about dinosaurs:)

haha, exactly like me! ;D

[H. İhsan Erkoç]

Yeah me too, back in the elementary school ;D

[thediplomat]

It is my destiny.. God gifted me this level of memorizing capability..

[H. İhsan Erkoç]

You are surely talented man, I really believe that. Otherwise, you couldn't have known so many things about history and you couldn't have learned so many languages

[yelenka]

As a child and a young teenager, I had no idea that Turkmens belonged to such a vast culture. In school, we were taught the Central Asian history but it was presented simply as history of Turkmenistan, which was very misleading. You simply can't study Turkmens apart from other Turkic/Mongol nations! While it was at times obvious that we had connections and a common history with the other countries of the region, there was never any emphasis put on it. Also, the sources were very scarce. We had no textbooks, our teachers had to search for information in encyclopedias, old sources, etc. Then I went to study my undergrad in Ankara. One of the courses I took was on Turkic/Steppe history. Professor was the most knowledgeable, passionate and inspiring person ever. He was just crazy about the subject and had the most interesting teaching methods. I think the fact that Turkish people have not lived under the Soviet rule makes them more knowledgeable about the subject in some ways. In Turkmenistan, we really need fundamental changes in education and approach to history.

[Balkhani]

It's in my blood.

[H. İhsan Erkoç]

yelenka1983 said:

Then I went to study my undergrad in Ankara. One of the courses I took was on Turkic/Steppe history. Professor was the most knowledgeable, passionate and inspiring person ever. He was just crazy about the subject and had the most interesting teaching methods.

I wonder, who is he?

[uyghur]

ahahaha uyghur